Opinion

Despite intense infighting that characterises the party, the fact remains that ZANU PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot afford to take any chances. 2018 is a matter of life or death not just […]

Harare – Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party youth leader has encouraged Grace Mugabe to use a whip on her errant “children”, after the first lady was accused of whipping South African model Gabriella Engels with an electric cable last month. Kudzanai Chipanga said the Zanu-PF youth members were Grace Mugabe’s children, […]

President Robert Mugabe says people like Takunda Amina are “worse than dogs and pigs” – so daily life as a gay man in Zimbabwe was never going to be easy. At 24, Amina has already been chased from his family home, forced to marry – twice – and fathered three […]

In late July, 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe — the oldest serving head of state in the world — alleged that military involvement in his party’s struggle over who will succeed him amounted to “a coup.” But research conducted in 2014 and 2015 in the capital city of Harare suggests that […]